Human rights
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Human rights situation in Iran is worrying
Zeid Ra'ad Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has called Iran one of the countries of concern in terms of respect for human rights.
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Iranian Human Rights Organization: 239 executions in the past six months
The Norway-based Iranian Human Rights Organization announced last week that 239 people in Iran have been…
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Participants in a peaceful rally in Qala Babak were arrested and beaten
An informed source told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that law enforcement forces arrested more than ten Turkish activists on July 29th…
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Amnesty International expresses concern over the "disappearance" of five Kurdish citizens
Amnesty International issued a statement criticizing the "disappearance of Kurdish citizens" and "retaliatory attacks on their families" and...
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Hassan Rouhani: International criticism of Iran's human rights is an excuse
While international organizations criticize the Islamic Republic of Iran's performance in violating human rights, President Hassan Rouhani...
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Iranian Human Rights Organization: 239 people were executed in Iranian prisons in the past six months
A human rights organization announced that 239 executions were carried out in Iran in the first six months of 2017,…
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New sanctions on Iran for supporting terrorism and human rights violations approved in the US Senate
On Thursday, the majority of the US Senate approved amendments to the new sanctions bill on the Islamic Republic of Iran, known as the "Countering the Actions of...
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Nikki Haley in Geneva: Human rights violators should not be members of the UN Human Rights Council
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, spoke for the first time at the 35th general session of the Human Rights Council…
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